This is my slide deck that help me raise $10 million + for 2 companies over 3 rounds of financing in 365 days (April 2009-March 2010). Read the full post as featured on Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/02/365-days-10-million-3-rounds-2-companies-all-with-5-magic-slides/ or on my blog: http://knowledgeissocial.com/365-days-10-million-3-rounds-2-companies-all-with-5-magic-slides/

1. Corporate tagline goes here
First Last Name
Founder
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AcmePower

2. Founder
AcmePower Snapshot
Key Employees Advisors
Timothy Young
Located in San Francisco
Paul Turing
Director of Engineering (NPLab)
Arlin Dacker
Senior Engineer (Ericsson)
Max Bill
Director of UX (Bauhaus)
Tracy Bennett
Software Engineer (Qualcomm)
Peter Pirolli
Software Engineer (Mozilla)
Financials
1.0MM Series A raised 04/2009
6MM Raising for Series B
Investors
Brian Ford (Blue, SpiralType)
Owen Carlson (US Angel, ProfNex)
Founded in 2009
Jack Good
ACLighting, Surge Water Corp.
Scott Sterling
Teres Mining
Emily James
LaunchGrid, PowerPeople
Total: 9
5,000
Competitor X
75,000
AcmePower
Users per server (tech competitive advantage stat)
Python, Ruby
SaaS delivery model - multi-tenant
Highest power efficiency
Technology
AcmePower
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3. X.xMM
Revenue
Activity Stream Server
xx
Daily reachxxx,xxx
Clusters deployed
$xxxk 2010 Contract value
$xxk Server cost
$xxk Year of support
Usage Employees
Full-time employees
4 New hires
3 Consultants
04:39:32 Time on app daily
00:44:49 Time on site
xxx,xxx Total active users
x,xxx Total active customers
6
3
2008 vs 2009 Usage growth(xxk) Net income
(xxxk) Gross monthly burn
Development
5 Major releases 8,345 Minor releases 99.92% Total service uptime
1 Outsourced technical firms
AcmePower 2009 by the numbers
AcmePower
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4. Every 20 years, a new widespread form of
enterprise collaboration has been adopted.
Telephone
Enterprise Adoption
Fax Machine Email Activity Streams
Activity Streams are the future of collaboration
AcmePower
Every 20 years, a new widespread form of
enterprise collaboration has been adopted.
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5. This slide should be blank as you transition to a laser focused
product demo no longer than 3 minutes.
** Make sure to rehearse
(I rehearsed ~150 times using ScreenFlow so I could review
playback)

6. Implementing / Contracts
And many more...
~XXMM+Live Customers
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Customer logo Customer logo
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Customer logo Customer logo
Pilots & Pipeline
“By 2012, over 50% of utilities will use energy management...”
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AcmePower Customer Overview
AcmePower
Customer logo
Customer logo
Customer logo
Customer logo
Customer logo
Customer logo
Customer logo
Customer logo
Customer logo

7. Where we are going
• Focus on X
• Need $$$ for Pipeline statement
• Biz Dev future statement
• Future product innovation 1
• Future product innovation 2
• Future product innovation 3
• Future product innovation 4
• Future product innovation 5
We need
• Executive position X
• Help with X statement
• More X talent
• Series B of ~$XMM
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2010
AcmePower
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